Quotes About Reality

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

The HoneyLine is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.

Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the "Gamepocalypse": the moment when every moment of life is actually a game.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.